Looking Back

Published 9:31 pm, Wednesday, April 2, 2014

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A replica of Henry Hudson's boat, the Halfmoon, leaves port and prepares to sail north to Albany on the Hudson River with a flotilla on Saturday, June 13, 2009, in Coeymans, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

A replica of Henry Hudson's boat, the Halfmoon, leaves port and prepares to sail north to Albany on the Hudson River with a flotilla on Saturday, June 13, 2009, in Coeymans, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

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1914: Josephine Eldere was arrested in Albany for violating the Sullivan Act by having a concealed revolver and stiletto without a license, and her stepsister Esther Teator was arrested for vagrancy. When she was found, Eldere was dressed in men's clothes, and police began to suspect that she was the "man" behind a series of recent holdups in the city's West End.

1964: The four-story brick building at 4-6 Sheridan Ave. in Albany was purchased by J. & L. Paper Products since its building at 74 Hamilton St. was taken over by the state for the South Mall redevelopment project.

1989: About two dozen animalrights activists looked on in Halfmoon Town Court as Justice Lester Wormuth told a man accused of killing a cat to return next month. The group, representing five animal organizations, vowed to be in court, too, when Ross Goldstock returned. Goldstock was arrested and charged with one count of cruelty to animals, a misdemeanor under the state Agriculture and Markets Law. He was free on $10,000 bail.

Want to read more about the Capital Region's past? Have any memories or thoughts about how our history relates to today's events? See http://blog.timesunion.com/history/.